Jazz Articles about Renee Rosnes

Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola: Women In Jazz

by Nick Catalano
October 5, 2007

The autumn jazz season has begun in New York and the energy at Lincoln Center continues to accelerate. This week I visited Dizzy's to catch the 3rd annual Diet Coke Women In Jazz Festival and found the club bulging with SRO crowds. Renee Rosnes (the new Mrs. Bill Charlap) debuted a new quartet and the group mirrored the excitement of what has surely become Gotham's hottest jazz venue.

This year's Women in Jazz celebration drew such veterans as ...

Jim Snidero: Strings

by David A. Orthmann
October 7, 2003

By staying in touch with his roots as a hard blowing alto saxophonist and leader of razor-sharp small bands, Jim Snidero has successfully married a ten-piece string section and a conventional jazz quartet. His arrangements of six original compositions (including the three-part “River Suite”) and two standards entail a constant shifting between the relative freedom of improvisation, and the tighter organization made necessary by the larger ensemble.

The recording’s primary soloist, Snidero consistently radiates excitement and a ...

Jim Snidero: Strings

by C. Michael Bailey
May 4, 2003

Jazz soloists especially like to make two types of recordings--those in duo with piano and those with strings . Art Pepper, Frank Morgan, Dizzy Gillespie and Jon Faddis made very fine piano duet recordings (Pepper and Morgan with the same pianist, George Cables, Gillespie and Faddis with Oscar Peterson). But seemingly, the Holy Grail of jazz is the recording with a string section, and many fine (and controversial) ones exist: Art Pepper- Winter Moon (Galaxy/OJC) Charlie Parker- With ...

Renee Rosnes: Life on Earth

by C. Andrew Hovan
February 1, 2002

On her eighth recording as a leader for Blue Note, pianist and composer Renee Rosnes presents a pan global festival that has far reaching impact. Utilizing a revolving cast of characters on various numbers, Rosnes manages to synchronize the various “world music” influences in a seamless manner that never falls into the “mixed bag” syndrome. Old friends (husband and drummer Billy Drummond, saxophonists Chris Potter and Walt Weiskopf, bassist Christian McBride, etc.) mix with new friends bringing in African, Brazilian, ...

Renee Rosnes: Life On Earth

by Jim Santella
February 1, 2002

With chants and drumbeats from around the world, Renee Rosnes has applied a theme to her latest album by integrating mainstream jazz with creative international elements. Regional characteristics from specific areas of Asia, Africa, North and South America are clearly distinguishable, while the unifying thread of her original piano counterpoint ties them together. Seven of the nine compositions are originals. Medieval Spain colors the landscape through Manuel de Falla's “Nana," while Fran Landesman's “Ballad of the Sad Young Men" serves ...

Renee Rosnes: Life on Earth

by C. Andrew Hovan
February 1, 2002

On her eighth recording as a leader for Blue Note, pianist and composer Renee Rosnes presents a pan global festival that has far reaching impact. Utilizing a revolving cast of characters on various numbers, Rosnes manages to synchronize the various “world music” influences in a seamless manner that never falls into the “mixed bag” syndrome. Old friends (husband and drummer Billy Drummond, saxophonists Chris Potter and Walt Weiskopf, bassist Christian McBride, etc.) mix with new friends bringing in African, Brazilian, ...

Renee Rosnes: Life On Earth

by Jim Santella
February 1, 2002

With chants and drumbeats from around the world, Renee Rosnes has applied a theme to her latest album by integrating mainstream jazz with creative international elements. Regional characteristics from specific areas of Asia, Africa, North and South America are clearly distinguishable, while the unifying thread of her original piano counterpoint ties them together. Seven of the nine compositions are originals. Medieval Spain colors the landscape through Manuel de Falla's “Nana," while Fran Landesman's “Ballad of the Sad Young Men" serves ...